Jeremiah 8:18-9:2 — Legacy Standard Bible

Sorrow over Zion

¹⁸¹My ^asorrow is beyond healing;My ^bheart is faint within me!¹⁹Behold, the sound! The cry of the daughter of my people from a ^adistant land:“Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”“Why have they ^bprovoked Me to anger with their graven images, with foreign ¹^,^cidols?”²⁰“Harvest is past, summer is ended,And we are not saved.”²¹For the ^abrokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken;I ^bmourn, desolation has taken hold of me.²²Is there no ^abalm in Gilead?Is there no physician there?^bWhy then has not the ¹health of the daughter of my people gone up?9¹^,^aOh that my head were watersAnd my eyes a fountain of tears,That I might weep day and nightFor the slain of the ^bdaughter of my people!²¹^,^aOh that I had in the desertA travelers’ lodging place,That I might leave my peopleAnd go from them!For all of them are ^badulterers,A solemn assembly of ^ctreacherous men.